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In an apparent peculiar trick, an unknown hacker wove voices of the technological billionaires with satirical messages on the audio tracks of the pedestrian crossings in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Redwood City, according to several weekend circulating videos.
An employee from the city of Palo Alto informed the officials on Saturday that a crosswalk at University Avenue and High Street “did not work correctly,” said the spokeswoman for the city, Meghan Horrigan-Taylor, to this news organization. The authorities determined that 12 intersections of the center were possible manipulated on Friday, he said.
Palo Alto officials disabled the affected audible characteristics of the pedestrian crossings and searched for other pirated pedestrian crossings. They determined “the impact is isolated,” he added.
“The signal operations are not affected, and the motorists are reminded who always have caution with pedestrians,” said Horrigan-Taylor in a statement.
In Redwood City, the attached administrator of the city, Jennifer Yamaguma, said in a statement that the city was aware on Saturday that “a pedestrian crossing signal was pirated and that a neighboring city experienced a similar incident.”
“The staff were actively working to investigate and solve the problem as quickly as possible,” Yamaguma told this news organization.
In videos shared by Palo Alto Weekly, a cruise interpreted a message from a false musk that said: “Hello, I’m Elon. Can we be friends? Approval.”
Another clip shows a false Zuckerberg that says: “Hey, is Zuuck here. I just want to tell you that I have proud that I am very good or in the construction of legs together, from the undercut of democracy, to cook our grandparents Greshy, until it makes one better than us.”
It is not clear how the signs of pedestrian crossings were pirated.
A Menlo Park official did not immediately respond to a comment request on Sunday.
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